If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Employment The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Employment
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Employment ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Employment
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Employment True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Employment
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Employment I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Employment
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Employment "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Employment
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Employment The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Employment
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Employment We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Employment
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Employment The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Employment
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Employment It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Employment
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Employment "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Employment
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Employment I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Employment
